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Socio-cultural context of eating disorders in Poland

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Title
Socio-cultural context of eating disorders in Poland
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Journal of Eating Disorders, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40337-016-0093-3
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Maciej Wojciech Pilecki, Kinga Sałapa, Barbara Józefik

Abstract

The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between sociocultural factors and clinical eating disorders during the intensive process of Westernisation in Poland that occurred after 1989. The study population included girls diagnosed with an eating disorder according to DSM-IV criteria (n = 47 anorexia nervosa restrictive type [ANR], n = 16 anorexia binge/purge type [ANBP], n = 34 bulimia nervosa [BN], n = 19 eating disorder not otherwise specified [EDNOS]) who received consultation for the first time between 2002 and 2004 in the Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital, Kraków, Poland. The study included an age-matched normal control group [NOR] of 85 schoolgirls from Kraków. Relationships between two given qualitative features were investigated using the chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. Correspondence analysis was applied to graphically explore the relationship. The Kruskal-Wallis test with the Bonferroni was performed to compare quantitative results across groups. Objective sociodemographic variables and responses to the 62-item Questionnaire of Socio-cultural Context were measured. The mothers of ANBP and BN patients were less professionally active than mothers of ANR patients and NOR subjects. Subjective socio-cultural factors were more relevant for the BN group than the ANR group. Questionnaire responses in the ANBP group were more similar to those in the BN group than to those in the ANR group. The most unambiguous and specific characteristic of the ANR group was a sense of belonging to the middle class. Variables that differentiated the BN group from the NOR group included the importance attached to thinness treated as an expression of power and control over one's self, as well as a multifaceted negative evaluation of one's own family, including a negative assessment of the position of women and parental lack of concern for appearance and principles of nutrition. All patients, regardless of diagnosis, identified with other people with similar problems and considered anorexia and bulimia to be a major issue of their generation and social environment. The results of this first in Poland exploratory study of socio-cultural context of eating disorders indicate the importance of both objective and subjective socio-cultural factors in eating disorders in the group studied.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 18 22%
Student > Master 14 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 10%
Researcher 6 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 20 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 26 32%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 23 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 July 2022.
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#1,956,917
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#32,701
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Eating Disorders
#3
of 12 outputs
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